No foreign blueprints. No borrowed reactor. No licensed hull. India built its third nuclear-powered submarine from scratch.Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa The commissioning of INS Aridhaman on 3 April 2026 completes a threshold that India's strategic community has been working toward for the better part of three decades. With three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines … Continue reading INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home
The next soldier will not bleed, will not tire, and will not hesitate. It is already being built, and the race to send it to war is underway. Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa In late January 2026, three Russian soldiers emerged from a destroyed building to surrender. There was no Ukrainian infantryman waiting for … Continue reading Race for Deploying Humanoid Soldiers Has Begun
Beijing did not send troops to West Asia. It sent a marketing clip. Rahul PAWA | x - @imrahulpawa On 6 March 2026, as Iranian Shaheds continued to breach air defences across six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states simultaneously, China's Ministry of National Defence posted a 35-second clip on its official English-language website. With few … Continue reading China’s Defence Ministry Releases Counter-drone Video as Shaheds Saturate West Asia
The joint US-Israeli strike of February 28, 2026 that killed Khamenei was full-spectrum corporate warfighting; satellites, AI, cloud, autonomous swarms, and information dominance working as one lethal system. India watched. It must now evolve. Rahul PAWA | x - iamrahulpawa In the predawn hours of Saturday, February 28, 2026, something extraordinary happened in the Shemiran … Continue reading US Tech Stack That Took Out Khamenei and Why It Matters to India
Three flawless trials at Chandipur signal that India's last line of aerial defence is no longer foreign. Rahul PAWA | x – iamrahulpawa On the evening of 27 February 2026, along the windswept test ranges of Chandipur on Odisha's coastline, India wrote a new chapter in its quest for aerial self-reliance. The Defence Research and … Continue reading VSHORADS Delivers India Its Own Aerial Firepower
New Delhi must play the role of an enabler in ethical governance of AI to shape the new humane order. R K Raina Artificial Intelligence is no longer merely a technological tool, nor simply a factor influencing economic growth or military capabilities. It has evolved into a transformative force that intervene governance, security, finance, culture, … Continue reading AI & Three-Layer Diplomacy: India’s Strategic Moment
The subtext of the summit is that integration capacity, not just frontier leadership may shape long‑run advantage. Rahul PAWA | x - @imrahulpawa In the week ahead, the India AI Impact Summit convenes at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, promoted by its organisers as a first global AI summit hosted in the Global South and … Continue reading From Intent to Impact: India’s AI Summit
Between Washington and Beijing, India Steadily Rewrites the Space Race
Broader implication is that counterterrorism efforts must adapt to an era of synthetic propaganda and AI-assisted operations. This means investing in new detection technologies, updating regulations for AI platforms, and perhaps rethinking how we monitor online terrorist communities without infringing on common people's privacy. Rahul Pawa In June 2025, an unlikely tech column appeared in … Continue reading A Terrorist Tech Review in Khorasan
India’s defence sector is undergoing a strategic renaissance evolving from self-reliance to global leadership as an exporter of cutting-edge, indigenous military technologies and a trusted partner in the international security architecture. Akshay Raina When it comes to national security, a country’s ability to rely on its own resources in times of conflict is crucial. For … Continue reading India’s Defence Doctrine: Missiles, Markets, and Momentum
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